Nafe (Kwamera)

v intr

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Speaker: Wahe Martial

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Speaker: Martial wahe

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Speaker: Wahe Martial

v intr

Speaker: Wahe Martial

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Speaker: Martial wahe

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v boive de l’eau.

(Bislama) tra drink wata

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v.

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adv., adj.

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v

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Example: Photo by givernykate / iNaturalist, License: CC-BY-NC via inaturalist.org

Scientific name: Diplacodes haematodes via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Example: Photo by zsispeo, License: CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 via Flickr

Scientific name: Lutjanus fulvus via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

(Bislama) Red Snapa

Example: Photo by ANFC, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Lutjanus malabaricus via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

adj.

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n.

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ma grande soeur

Speaker: Wahe Martial

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Example: Photo by ANFC, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Epinephelus areolatus via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

[kwankamun] n.

Example: Ornamental: The white fruits of this plant are used as pendants to fashion a necklace for a man, woman or child.

Scientific name: Coix lacryma-jobi, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n.

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[kwanəraj] n.

Example: People use this plant as a medicine to treat bad knees. Peel the bark, take 1 handful and put it in a cup of water until the water becomes black. Drink it 3x daily as needed until the knee pain disappears and the knee heals. Children use the seeds as a glue in school work.

Scientific name: Cordia dichotoma, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n.

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n.

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n.

Example: Hardwood, for carving. For building house posts. If wood is dry when it is wet outside, this wood will light and burn faster than any other wood (due to high sap content).

Scientific name: Guettarda speciosa, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n.

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

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n.

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Example: Photo by Doug Janson / Wikimedia Commons, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Scientific name: Ptulinopus tannensis, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[mɨriaki]

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nakua tanna]

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Example: Photo by Museum of New Zealand / Te Papa Tongarewa, License: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Lethrinus genivittatus via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nakne̤ruk] n.

Example: When this plant flowers, people hunt flying fox as they like to chew on this flower. When you see it in flower, people know that taro is ready to be harvested.

Scientific name: Geissois denhamii, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n.

Example: Branches used to make bow and arrow for hunting. Stem used for fence posts and houses. To treat a strong cough, take a branch of 20 leaves, toss in water, boil 10-20 minutes, drink warm liquid 2 cups a day for 1 week or until cough is gone.

Scientific name: Premna corymbosa, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n.

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Example: Photo by ANFC, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Plectorhinchus gibbosus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Example: Photo by Graham Edgar / Reef Life Survey. License: CC BY 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Plectorhinchus chrysotaenia via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

n.

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n.

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n mes vertèbres

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n.

Example: People use trunk for houseposts as the stem is very straight. The stem also can be used for firewood.

Scientific name: Syzygium myriadenum, Speaker: Martial Wahe

la fete

(Bislama) bigfala kakae

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n.

Example: Used for house posts, rafters, and other construction-- very good for building in Tanna. Scrape the stem and put the pieces into a cup. Squeeze these pieces through with water, pour into a glass, and give to someone with heavy menstrual bleeding. 1 stem used to fill a cup, and drink one liter a day forone week. It is thought that shark meat causes bleeding. This will solve that. This plant is called "medicine of the shark".

Scientific name: Melicope, Speaker: Johnson Noar

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[makeihimap] n.

Example: Ceremonial: During kava preparation, chewed kava roots are placed on the green leaves of this plant before extracting. One of many leaves used for this purpose.

Scientific name: Macropiper latifolium, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

[nemra:pɨp] n.

Example: Hunting: Flying foxes are attracted to this plant for their flowers. As a result, hunters gather around this plant when they desire to hunt the flying fox.

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n.

Example: This plant is known as "fishbone leaf" as the edge of the leaf tears away and the remaining part is serrated. It is a powerful medicine that is secret.

Scientific name: Leea indica, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n.

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n.

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Melochia odorata, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n.

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n.

Example: Take 1 double handful of leaves, mix with dry coconut, roast in fire -- cover w/ banana leaf, tie up roast in fire for 5-10 min, take it down to the sea and the boys who have been circumcised 2 weeks before wash the sore with it. Dries up sore faster and wash skin and adds a fragrance to it. To treat strong fever, take knife and squeeze stem and put shavings on a leaf take 1 handful and mix with water and fill up a cup and pout into 1 bottle -- in morning and afternoon and consume 1 liter/day repeat for second day fever will do down in a few days.

Scientific name: Dysoxylum aneityense, Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nisi apram] n.

Example: The leaves of this plant are used to make a women’s grass skirt. Men use these leaves to put in a band around the arm as decoration. For kastom ceremony, take coconut endosperm, chew with this leave and covery body. It makes the body smell very nice. When a person has a fever, mix this leaf with other leaves including Annona muricata and Citrus species. Then the person sits over a steaming pot and inhales it to reduce the fever and symptoms. If you need to go to a "tabu" place, where the spirit can make you sick, a person can bathe with the leaves of this plant ...

Scientific name: Euodia hortensis, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n.

(Bislama) nakafika

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nurap] n.

Example: Wood from this tree is good for making house posts, as it is very strong. The wood is considered as excellent firewood. To restore energy when a person is tired, chew the leaf, swallow the juice, and spit out the leaf--it will make the person feel better.

Scientific name: Syzygium malaccense, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n.

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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la parole

Speaker: Martial Wahe

le gout de poisson

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Example: Photo by Andy A. Lewis / Lizard Island Research Station, License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Scarus schlegeli via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Example: Photo by ANFC, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Strongylura incisa via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. inalienable

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. sentier

Example: see more on Youtube

Speaker: Jean Eskar

Example: Photo by eschlogl / iNaturalist, License: CC-BY-NC via inaturalist.org

Scientific name: Goniobranchus kuniei via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n.

Example: To increase milk flow in a nursing mother, take a double handful of leaves and put in 1 liter of water. Drink one bottle twice a day for three days.

Scientific name: Alternanthera brasiliana, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n.

(Bislama) tapaka

Scientific name: Bislama, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Example: Photo by Philippe Guillaume, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Sphyraena forsteri via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Example: Photo by Lesley Clements / iNaturalist.org, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Pterocaesio marri via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

n.

Example: Flower for decorating things like at marriage, church, opening of new building like dispensary. Ancient people, when needed water, take stem, mash 4-6 pieces and squeeze into coconut shell and drink it. So squeeze the stems together after mashing them along their entire length with wood post. This can be used to collect water today when a person is in the forest and thirsty. Leaves wrap banana laplap. Put in saucepan boil 20 minutes, toss out water, take leaf off and eat laplap. Leaf folded not tied. People say its native to Vanuatu

Scientific name: Heliconia, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

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Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Example: Photo by John E. Randall, License: CC BY-NC 3.0

Scientific name: Albula glossodanta via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Example: Photo by Ross D. Robertson / Shorefishes of the Neotropics, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Naso unicornis via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe